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Innovation

Working The Crowd: This Fuse Will Set The Collective Brain On Fire

Kristin Kloberdanz
April 28, 2017
Fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series are well versed in the trials and tribulations facing coders struggling to write better compression software. That show is fictional, but the problem is very real. It affects movie downloads, live streaming and also industry.
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3D Printing

Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand

Tomas Kellner
April 26, 2017
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound system to create and print 3D models of Kaden’s heart before and after his surgery.
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jobs

Ready For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine Factory For High School Kids

Maggie Sieger
April 25, 2017
The Hydes' oldest daughter is an IT business analyst, their son is a computer engineer, and their youngest daughter will be studying art and psychology. Scott Reynolds’ daughters, both of whom were at the top of their classes in high school and college, now work in education, one as a teacher and the other as an operations manager for a national charter school network. When they were young, their father showed them a profile American Girl magazine had written about their grandmother’s career at GE.
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3D Printing

The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push In Germany

Tomas Kellner
April 24, 2017
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing to a new dimension, using it to liberate designers and reinvent manufacturing. Herzog is the founder of Concept Laser, one of the leading makers of industrial 3D printers.
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Q1

GE Reports First Quarter Earnings: A Strong Start In A Challenging Environment

Tim Cheng
April 21, 2017
That’s an augmented reality check.
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Renewables

Catching More Wind: GE Acquires World’s Largest Turbine Blade Maker

Maggie Sieger
April 20, 2017
But AR is already making an impact.
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Energy

The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California Grab More Renewables

Tomas Kellner
April 17, 2017
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The record was a good omen for America’s most populous state, which is striving to use renewables for half of its electricity consumption by 2030.
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ai

I Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge

Tomas Kellner
April 13, 2017
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of artificial intelligence. We sat down with Mark Grabb and Achalesh Pandey, two GE scientists looking for ways to apply AI to  jet engines, medical scanners and other machines. "We are starting to see significant performance increases from the combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning, where you have a human in the loop correcting the system," Grabb said.
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Energy

This Is What We Call Ecomagination: GE Is Building A CO2-Powered Turbine That Generates 10 Megawatts And Fits On A Table

Tomas Kellner
April 12, 2017
Beacham says that facial recognition will enable plant managers to ensure that workers at specific workstations have the required training. It also will automatically sign the employee into GE’s IT systems and allow him or her to start or resume the job after a break. “We’re spending almost 100,000 hours a year on logging into our IT systems at GE Healthcare alone,” Beacham says. “This saves time and money.”
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Just Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons

Todd Alhart
April 10, 2017
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s called combinatorial chemistry.
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